Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 6: Prerequisites

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Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit - Part 6: Prerequisites

Friday, July 4. 2008

Okay, before working with the Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit we have to prepare some stuff. We need systems, a network (as fast as possible to reduce installation time, but even 10 MBit/s would suffice), operating system ISOs etc.

Okay ... We need several systems for this test. I´ve used Virtualbox in the preparation of this tutorial. You can use other virtualisation software, but one thing is important: It must support PXE boot of the guests.

I´ve populated my /etc/hosts with the following hostnames. In the case you wonder about the hostnames, these names are characters from Ghost in a Shell. And just in case you search for kusanagi ... this is the name for the system hosting the virtual machines:

192.168.10.1 aramaki 192.168.10.10 togusa 192.168.10.11 ishikawa

In my tutorial aramaki will serve as the Jumpstart server, togusa and ishikawa are the installation targets.

Packages and ISOs

For this tutorial i´ve used the following packages and ISOs:

Solaris 10 Update 5: This is the operating environment i will use to demonstrate automated patching
Opensolaris Community Edition Build 87: aramaki runs with this operating environment and it´s no problem to jumpstart Opensolaris CE oder DE with JET or to use Opensolaris for the Jumpstart Server
Recommended Patch ClusterTo demonstrate automated patching, i´ve used the recommended patch cluster. You can gather it at sunsolve.sun.com.
SUNWjet:The Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit. You can gather it at here
SUNWjass The Solaris Security Toolkit. You can get it at here

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 17:22 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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Less Known Solaris features: Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit
I forgot to post the conclusion and the table of content when i published the JET tutorial some weeks ago. Okay ... here they are. This is a real long tutorial. 16 Parts in total. Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic Jumpstart Part 3: Files controlling

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